Patient Course Works Samples For Students

- Considering the demand of the citizens, America has toughened its stand on the criminals and put them into prisons. However, this step has caused a different problem. The American prisons are overcrowded and the government faces the ire of judiciary as well as several human rights organization that demand a human treatment for the prisoners. An easy option before the American government is to privatize the prisons to provide the prisoners a comfortable life. The american government is exploring every option to look into the probaility of privatizing the prisons.

Privatization of prisons does not mean that the government is ...

The meaning of brief varies among therapists, but there is one common aspect: it is a blanket term that incorporates a variety of psychotherapies. Some therapists focus on the current patient observable behavioral interaction, and aim to change the going system (Molnar & Shazer, 1987). This approach was engineered in response to situational limitations, as well as, patient needs (Molnar & Shazer, 1987). In practice, brief therapy has short versions of conventional and family therapies. The underpinnings of conventional and family therapies are employed but are brief. This approach is exceptionally useful if the desired therapy is unavailable or beyond the reach of ...

Protection of health information is important. HIPAA Privacy Rule protects the privacy of individuals. Individuals must consent to have their health information disclosed to other people. Health care providers can share and discuss health information of an individual if he/she does not object. Sharing of information only happens in cases where the person receiving the information needs to know for payment or needs to know about the care of the patient. If the patient is unconscious, the health care provider of the patient can share the information to a family member ('Health Information Privacy', 2014). Nursing workplace is field that ...

An ethical dilemma is any circumstance in which direct moral values are put in conflict in deciding which path of action is correct or incorrect (Pozgar, 2011). Ethical decision-making procedures, however, provide a useful framework in which to understand the conflicts, evaluate the alternatives and decide on the best course of action to take in the specific situation confronting the decision maker. Indeed, while employing a method of ethical decision-making to an ethical dilemma may not provide all the answers but it should help clarify the issues enough so that a means of resolution will be obvious or easier to see.

Gather the facts needed to identify the problem

The ...

My patient is a seventy five year old African American man with Geriatric condition. Geriatric is a condition that affects elderly people. The medication administered to such individuals is called Geriatric medicine. It is also called family medicine or internal medicine. This medicine helps to promote the prevention of disabilities and diseases in older adults (Kagan, 2010). The physician who administers geriatric medicine to the patient is called a geriatric physician or a geriatrician. In other words, Geriatrics is the ‘care of elderly or aged individuals’.

As said above, my patient is a seventy-five old African American male. His name is Caleb Rama. ...

The process of evaluation is used to monitor the program and its operations. The experts use it in home health nursing. They also use it to assess the design and implementation of the project according to the plan.

The journal highlights various factors that are put into consideration when customer and family education programs are designed. They include: time, frequency, and personal preference. Client goals are considered in the program. Evaluation is necessary to determine a patient’s condition. Home health nursing requires evaluation process to ensure that the expected outcomes are achieved (Revel &McCurry, 2010).

The process ...

Question 1

President Clinton made a strategic miscalculation in health reforms and at the end experienced disappointments. The republicans, moderate democrats, the American Medical Association and the Health Insurance Association of America backtracked from a policy that they had agreed to support (Clinton & Clinton, 1993). The health reform suggested for implementation of universal care coverage that failed terribly remained a dream that never came true. Clinton failed to consider the matters of interest groups as he made a blunder of becoming a partisan in the health reform. The president planned to empower his leadership by public opinions and tried to play the politics of health, which ...

The risk of death by patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) stems not only from their critical illness but also from nasocomial infection. Among the critically ill patients, pneumonia is one of the most common nasocomial infections, affecting 27% of the patients (Cai, 2011). Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) or ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) as it is commonly referred occur 48 hours or more after admission and endotracheal intubation (mechanical ventilation) of the patient (Drakulovic, 1999). The frequency of nasocomial pneumonia varies among the types of ICUs with high incidences of VAP mortality reported in children’s pediatric intensive care unit ( ...

A considerable number of General Practitioners, surgeons and other practicing medical specialists occasionally misdiagnose medical conditions causing devastating effect on patients’ lives. Many times that ends fatally with death. The question we have to answer is could that bring murder charges against physicians whose patients die. The answer is positive because practically this is a murder and murder is a crime. The most significant element of an act to be qualified as a crime is the guilt. In the Criminal law guilt is the psychical attitude of the intruder towards the crime. We distinguish two types of guilt: direct – when the perpetrator ...

5A. Niche Clientele is a portion of the market that an organization identifies as having some special features and determines that it is worth marketing to that portion of the market. The organizations tend to use niche clientele most often are those in the private sector-such organizations are owned and run by individuals. Considering a micro-finance: the questions usually asked in this case is: who will be their clientele with specific features and how will knowing their clientele help the organization? Such small finance corporation will often target people with low income or middle income level people. Understanding the specific income ...

The United States Department of Health and Human Services states quality improvement (QI) uses continuous and systematic approaches leading to improvements in the health status of targeted patient group and health care services that are measurable (HRSA, 2014). There is a direct correlation between the health outcomes of populations and the individuals within them and how well health services are improved. The systems of care and the delivery approach used by an organization is the focus of improvements in quality.
The Baldridge Award Criteria evaluate companies in seven divisions for consideration (Bushbinder and Shanks, 2007). These criteria set the ...

Response to Lisa’s posting’

DUTY: Yes. There was a duty to act since the nurse was supposed to look after the patient and ensure that he was in a safe environment as stated on the code of ethics of the Texas board of nursing (Westrick, 2014).

Breach, why or why not? Yes. There was a breach of duty, since the nurse was supposed to take off the patient, but she did not do so. She did not even follow the doctor’s orders to check on the patient every two hours and record down the progress (Texas Board of Nursing Bulletin, 2004).

Causation: yes, there was ...

Introduction

The process of attending to patients in healthcare facilities has already changed over time. It could be realized that the concept of development in technology and how it is used in modern ways of keeping up with the demands in healthcare specifically point out the condition by which patient care is improved and the competence of providing services to the people is further put into a progressive state. In the case that is to be treated and discussed herein, a distinct attention to detail on how modern health operations ought to accommodate patient care demands shall be given focus. Relatively ,such ...

Does the Required Documentation Determine the Care a Hospice Nurse Will Provide

Notably, it is necessary for a hospice nurse to have the required documentation before attempting to provide any assistance. This is because hospice nurses practice nursing under the law. As a result, Kennedy (2008) states that all their actions and performance is guided by the policies and guidelines put in place by the law. Notably, any malfunction or accidents that happen during care are answerable in front of a jury. This means that damages incurred are liable to the practicing hospice nurse. Rice (2006) statuses that their employer insures the hospice nurse with the necessary documentation to a set amount meaning that a hospice ...

Introduction

The social problem in this case will be drug addicts. There are various types of drugs that can be abused such as alcohol, tobacco, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, etc. Such drugs create dependence syndrome on the user if it is used for long periods of time. Therefore, they are meant to be avoided, and young children taught to avoid them and influences that may cause them to take drugs. The drugs alter the body and the mind and the individual starts behaving in an unusual manner. The person usually stops doing all the things that they found joy in as ...

My Nursing Ethics

Values refer to the defined principles that guide different people on the way of life. Values differ depending on the cultures and the different religions to which people associate with. Values define that which is acceptable and that which is not and draws lines between the good and the bad. Values set the standards for various types of organizations, be it religious or business. For example, integrity, honesty, compassion and respect are among some of the many values (Murray, 2010). Morals, on the other hand, can be defined as a set of values which are gained from a higher authority, rather ...

Introduction

Reliable and sound information is the key source of decision-making across all healthcare centers worldwide. Effective information systems are essential for the development of health system policies and their implementation. In addition, it ensures good governance and regulation, promotes health research, improve human resources development and high service delivery. Advances in technology, especially the internet, creates a better opportunity to improve healthcare institutions through making communications more efficient and increasing the effectiveness of practitioners. Healthcare centers that have implemented information systems have realized great changes in their operations in terms of speed, safety, efficient communications between parties and cost cutting. ...

In my view, the four students acted against the ethical principles and theory of the nursing practice. This is true given that the students violated the principle of beneficence, least harm, as well as the theory of deontology. According to the principle of beneficence, the nursing students are expected "to do good" both for patients and the society in general (Benjamin & Curtis, 2010). It aims at ensuring that people obtain the greatest level of good. Another principle, which is almost similar to that of beneficence, is that of least harm where the student's actions should result ...

Home Clinical is a local clinic located in the heart of Kigali metropolitan city. It offers clinical services and general healthcare consultations to the locals. The clinic has a bed capacity of 200 patients and can accommodate up to 500 inpatient clinics in a day. The CEO, Mr. Smith and two administrative assistants, five physicians and several nurses and clinical personnel head the institution. Its services include dentistry, gynecology, obstetrics and general health care and welfare.

The clinic has been using paper based system or record keeping in its facilities. When new patient checks in, it is issued with a small card with a ...

The HIPAA passed in 1996, protects patients’ confidentiality, ensure people keep their health insurance upon job loss, and assist in controlling administrative costs. The Act addresses three key areas: portability, administrative simplification, and privacy. The law applies to healthcare providers, healthcare clearinghouses and health plans such as Medicare and Medicaid. Personal health information that the law considers confidential include names, significant dates such as birth dates, contact information, social security numbers, photographs and any other unique identifying information. The Act prescribes several medical forms that patients must sign in order to protect their privacy and confidentiality rights regarding the ...

A chief information officer also known as a CIO serves as one of the most important executive dealing with the healthcare institutions. He normally works along with the Information Technology staff of the health organizations in order to support the implementation, designing and provision of technology which could be imbibed in the healthcare for its betterment. A chief information officer playing the role of protagonist in today’s consistently advancing technological era, has to face a lot many challenges which could rather be regarded as exciting new opportunities to incline the healthcare towards a more connected, patient- centric and collaborative approach.(‘ ...

InstitutionLeadership Learning Experience Project

- The Need for Interdisciplinary Teams

Interdisciplinary teams are important in nursing as they improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients. Interdisciplinary teams consist of professionals from different disciplines who work together and share expertise, skills and knowledge (Gardner, 2005). Collaboration and teamwork are imperative in healthcare which requires professionals with varied expertise. Poor collaboration between health professionals and lack of teamwork influences quality and safety of care (Gardner, 2005). Research linked poor collaboration with poor patient outcome and increase in medical errors. This is because patients do not get appropriate and timely care. Poor communication ...

A. Background

The theory of Self-care Deficit was developed by Dorothea Orem. This theory states that a self-care deficit occurs when the patient or the guardians of dependents are unable to meet the requisites for self-care (Edney, Jaime & Young, n.d.). When this happens, nursing help is needed. More specifically, nursing care is used to help people enhance their self-care abilities, which they would need for survival and for maintaining their well-being and their quality of life.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1914, Orem completed her diploma program from the Providence High School of Nursing and later received her bachelor’s and ...

There are multiple websites that aim to teach students about electrocardiograms (ECG/EKGs). One website that was quite effective is the one build by a paramedic, Aaron Segal (n.d.). One positive attribute of this site was the use of analogies and humor. Although the toilet analogy for the description of absolute and relative refractory period might be considered by some to be in poor taste, it is certainly easy to remember (Segal, n.d., Cardiac contraction and ECG). From this site I learned basic information about ECGs including how to read a normal one, the steps of interpreting an ECG, and some examples ...

Patient centeredness entails exhibiting the qualities of compassion, empathy and responding to the needs and values of an individual patient. It also involves interpreting to the patient all the information on the medical service they are receiving. Physicians are also required to give patients information about other alternative medical procedures or other facilities that can offer more specialized care (AHRQ 169).

In order to improve transparency in health care, a lot of work and dedication is necessary from all the medical staff. The first stage in improving is planning where the goal identification occurs, and a strategy is formed to achieve ...

Introduction

The present assessment involves the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, which is located in Dallas. The facility is an 898-bed acute-care infirmary that treats complicated medical cases in North Texas. The assessment focuses on the quality of health care offered at the facility, as well as other facilities in the country, and explores ways of improving the services.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) observes that the U.S. health care system does not offer consistent and high-quality medical care to every citizen. Consequently, the health care system routinely fails to provide its potential benefits to all people. IOM notes that between ...

Pet therapy refers to guided dealings between a trained animal and an individual in which the animal trainer is also involved. Animals are used in treatment in hospitals, elder living amenities and educational settings. Pet therapy offers individuals an opportunity to improve their life through human-animal relations. This ideology developed from the conviction in the supernatural spirits and influences of animals. It first appeared in the assemblages of hunters and gatherers people and the initial report of pet therapy took off in the late 18th century at the York Retreat in Britain headed by William Tuke. It is a developing field ...

The major theme for health care law seems to be the consent of treatment. The principle of consent for treatment is the giving of permission before receiving any treatment. Consent can be of two types; implied or express consent. Express consent is either in oral or written form. Implied consent is the action the patient shows that passively allow treatment (CPSO, 2006). For example, when a patient holds out her arm to show they are okay with having a blood test.

Consent must be informed, voluntary, and issued by a person with the capacity to do so. Voluntary means that the patient ...

As a health care practitioner, am of an opinion that it was right for the center for disease control to immediately take action; since failure to this may have led to the spread of tuberculosis to other people. Mr. Speakers right to autonomy as a patient could not be exercised in this case because such options do not apply in emergency cases like this one. Therefore, he could not be allowed to make decisions on; whether to seek treatment or not; due the harm that he might have caused to others.

The principle of beneficence was applicable by the center for ...

Question one:

The King’s theory of Goal Attainment analyzes the output of nurses in achieving health goals and promoting patient outcome. In the given case, the Goal Attainment theory would play a big role in planning, implementing and evaluating the care of the patient. The goal attainment theory claims that an effective communication between nurses and patients helps in attaining health care goals (Basavanthappa, 2007, p. 165).

Planning:

The theory promotes good nurse-patient interpersonal relationship, which will be used in planning visits to monitor blood sugar levels, diet advises, exercise courses and mode of medication. The theory ensures timely consultation between the ...

AORN, (Association of periOperative Registered Nurses) is an organization that is a nonprofit organization whose members are nurses who are specialized in perioperative care in the United States with its main office in Denver. It has 41,000 registered nurses in perioperative nursing. They actively engaged in the teaching, manage and research in perioperative nursing. As such, the sole aim of the organization is to provide resources, set standards for perioperative clinical practice and publishing of AORN journal that shed lights on various research that have been done on perioperative nursing. Additionally, the organization provides a platform where members interact and ...

QUALITY INDICATORS

Extensively describe nurse sensitive indicators your employer is tracking

All health facilities take prime on the welfare of their patients and the quality of the services they provide. As such, hospitals hire only highly-qualified nurses and staff to ensure that no patient would fall prey to malpractice and unethical treatment. The Nursing-Sensitive Indicators developed by the American Nurses Association (ANA) gauges the efficiency of nurses in the facility. Idzior (2014) explains that these indicators provide information and understanding on the range of the services and care the facility delivers.

Hospital administrators measure Nursing-Sensitive Indicators such as: the patient-focused outcomes, ...

Introduction

Budgeting performance is crucial in determining an organizations ability to serve its core purposes among them customers and employees’ satisfaction. In addition, understanding the relationship between accounting, finance and the organization’s operating budget is crucial as it enhances strategic planning in view of all the three aspects. In that view, this study demonstrates how the budget performance affects employees’ satisfaction and patient care with reference to Patton Fuller Community hospital. In addition, the analysis explains how accounting and finance are related to the organization’s operating budget.

Analysis

- How the budget performance affects patient care and employee satisfaction

The plan to increase the nurse pay by $1 while retaining ...

Patient satisfaction is a significant and integral aspect of any health facility; hence the institution should strive to make sure it meets patients’ expectations. As identify, the health sector has become a competitive field hence patient looks for a healthcare facility which meets their needs and expectations.

Therefore, a health facility must come up with strategies and policies which are patient-centered. These strategies are geared towards creating an environment that is satisfying to the patients and meets the patients’ needs. Thus, one of the strategies is getting the patients’ perspective through a survey that will make sure it captures the majority of patients’ views ...

Question 1

Are there possible criminal aspects of HIV/AIDS? Consider the case law presented in your textbook and elsewhere, and explain. Please provide specific examples.

The intentional spread of HIV is considered a criminal act. Pozgar (2012, p. 362) describes the case of an inmate who knew that he was infected with both HIV and the hepatitis virus. He was also informed of the ways that he can transmit the infection to others. He bit two correctional officers knowing that he can possibly infect them in this way. He was consequently charged with assault and battery. In State of Louisiana v. Schmidt, ...

Patients receiving acute care typically go through different levels of care encountering numerous health care providers in the process. For example, a stroke patient who undergoes cranial surgery will be admitted into the PACU. Once stable, he is admitted into the medical-surgical unit and then discharged into long-term rehabilitation. Prior to being sent home, he is advised to see his primary care physician for follow-ups. Throughout the many transitions in each health care experience, handoffs occur between health care professionals working in each unit during changes in shift. Handoffs also take place between providers of one unit or level of ...

Staging of kidney disease in patients involves assigning the stage of the disease based on the level to which the kidney of the patient in question is infected. Chronic kidney disease is defined as either kidney damage or GFR less than 60ml/min//1.73m squared for three months or more. Staging is important because it makes the work of the medical practitioners easy in terms of patient treatment (Hamm, 2010). As a result of staging, medical practitioners are in a better position of knowing the exact patients with the most advanced level of kidney infection with relative ease. This makes it very efficient ...

Systematic review

Surgical intervention is one of the critical components in the field of medical practice. All surgical procedures aim at positive outcome, but is not the case in all procedures done. There are cases reported where complications arise that do not stem from the main or primary illness, but from procedural intervention during surgery. The main causes of these complications include wrong person surgery, wrong site surgery and wrong site marking. In regards to the commonality in these occurrences, various research articles have aimed to address these issues. The articles indicates that wrong site surgery is a rare occurrence, but once ...

Working in the medical field today can be exhilarating, but it can also be a challenge. The technology and medical procedures involved are often evolving and changing, forcing medical staff to evolve with it. In some cases, the staff grows comfortable with the technology available to them; they even begin to prefer it. Being a nurse is difficult enough at times without constantly having to relearn procedures and systems. One of the greatest thorns in a nurse’s side is the implementation of an electronic health records system, or EHR. Though the change can be difficult, thanks to Everett Rogers’ work on ...

What are the challenges faced by MCOs regarding practice variations? What do you think can be done to meet these challenges?
Variations in healthcare programs are expensive. Overutilization, underutilization, and improper utilization are challenges that MCOs face. MCOs should adhere to procedures and protocols using the established standards by organizations example the national committee for quality assurance (NCQA).

Differentiate between the three main processes of institutional utilization management

Determine the main purpose of each process of institutional utilization management. Which process do you think is the most important, and why?
The direct admissions’ purpose is to create timely attendant for the outpatients that come to the hospitals. ...

The most important job of a nurse manager is to ensure that the care of the patients comes first. As a nurse manager in an inpatient unit, the first activity that I would assign priority is the primary care of all the inpatients. I would ensure that the nurses and the staff have the required resources and motivation to take care of the patients well. The second activity that I would prioritize is the state of both the nurses and staff. As a nurse manager in a community setting, I would still prioritize the state of the community because that is the primary ...

Abstract

The aim of this study is to look at ethical dilemmas of staff nurses that often arise across a variety of work settings and how nurses resolve ethical dilemmas. Every nurse differs in educational preparation and experience. The impact of the dilemma can vary and influence decision-making, and the complexities caused by legalities often impact the nursing roles during the dilemmas. The role of self, support to patients and families, patient educator and communicator are necessary during the ethical dilemmas.

Nurses face ethical challenges daily when providing quality care and can remain highly dissatisfied in their struggle when faced with ...

Traditionally, the prevention of infections focused solely on the patient outcomes with less regard to financial and resource usage during the prevention. However, with the emergence of the new trends in healthcare governance and accounting of resources there has been a need to place focus on the financial aspect of prevention (Lipke, & Hyott, 2010).

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and as such, surgical site infections fall within this category where preventionists must focus on the financial implications both to the patient and the institution alongside patient outcomes. In the society, social class disparity has been reckoned as a major influencing factor in ...

There are many gray areas when it comes to ethical and legal guidelines in the healthcare industry. This is because healthcare providers are supposed to care for all of the people that they are providing healthcare for. Therefore, the healthcare provider is going to have his or her beliefs on what they believe is ethical or not. Sometimes this could interfere with the standards of the law for their practice. On the contrary, a healthcare provider can only do what the patient asks them to do based on personal beliefs of the patients and their ethical issues. When a medical professional ...

Nursing is an ever-changing and complex profession. There are things that should not change however; dedication to excellence in nursing. The excellence is achieved through the best practices, ethics and standards. Professional nursing practice hereby involves execution of primary tasks towards the patients. The nurse should be a leader, teacher, collaborator, guide and sentry. For these key roles to be executed efficiently, it requires that nurses have interpersonal and technical skills, ongoing learning, evidence-based practices, and commitment to quality, ethical practice, caring, critical thinking, leadership skills and cultural competence.

Nurses are required to practice in accordance with their professional philosophical ...

One of the most important things I have learnt since I began my course in nursing is the enormous responsibility placed on the nurse on a daily basis. The magnitude of the responsibility is defined by the needs to transformation of theoretical skills into practice to ensure quality care, while giving the patient that extra bit of knowledge on self-care. Similarly, it involves ensuring that they remain hopeful of a healthy tomorrow. At first, I thought of nursing as any other career where you can come to work, do your part and leave once you are done with your part. However, ...

Medical profession has a broad spectrum of ethical and legal issues at a broader organizational level as well as at an individual level. While it is an individual who actually delivers the services, it is because of the brand that a patient goes in. Hence, it is logical to extend the responsibility of omissions and commissions from the individual caregiver to the organization also.

Negligence has serious connotations in any profession, but more so in the medical profession. A simple injection administered through the wrong route (for example, an IV (intra-venous) injection administered as an IM (intra-muscular) injection could result in severe ...

Sexual orientation is an issue that has been topic of discussion over the world with it being accepted in some communities and rejected in others. In recent, years people have been allowed to engage in same sex relationship, a situation whereby a man is viewed normally despite being in an intimate relationship with another man or lady with a lady. Sexual intercourse, which contributes to a high percentage of the spread of the disease, is of an alarming rate among the African American male between the age of 13-24. The observation is contributed by several factors as a community-based research technique involving several parties ...

Information Technology and Health Informatics

Information Technology and Health Informatics

Information technology is the terminology used to describe all forms of technological applications in designing the encoding of information (or data), managing, to using the information according to the needs of an organization. In contrast, health informatics streamline technological application of information pertaining to the health care setting. Specifically, health informatics is defined as “the knowledge, skills and tools which enable information to be collected, managed, used and shared to support the delivery of healthcare and promote health” .

Give examples from your work experiences of clinical information systems, administrative information systems and decision ...

Psychologist claim that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is due to distress in human maladaptive thinking (Gillian, 2008). CBT focus on thoughts and feelings of a patient and does not rely on past information. Therapist that administer CBT emphasize on supervision in their ethical practice to ensure good relationship with the client. The therapist has to use power to assist the patient. The CBT model permits the objectivity of the therapist in the fulfillment of the client needs. This model allows the therapist to act in the best interest of the client (Gillian, 2008). The CBT model permits the therapist to ...

I believe that a person is born into a context; race, sex, family, country. The interplay between personal traits and external circumstances makes a person the way they are. The same person born to a different family or a different culture would suffer from different kinds of hardship or distress.

Optimal Functioning

In my eyes, optimal mental health does not necessarily mean happiness at all times; optimal mental health, in my view, is flexibility and the ability to look at one's thoughts and feelings, examine their viability and how they may be affected by factors such as thought patterns, bias and faulty perceptions.

Mental Health Problems

I believe ...

Mental disorder has become very common these days and in the United States, many people have been diagnosed with this condition. According the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, statistics indicate that bipolar disorder is non discriminatory, it affects men, women and children in equal measure race, social class or ethnic group notwithstanding. Approximately 5.7 million Americans who are eighteen and/or older suffer from it. Even so, about 70% of this population is aware of their status and are under medication (WHO 2005). Bipolar disorder is therefore a condition that has become very common among the American population taking into consideration ...

Scenario 1: Teaching a newly diagnosed type II diabetic patient the importance of monitoring his/her blood glucose level.

This scenario will require applying connectivism theory of learning to help the patient effectively comprehend the importance of monitoring blood glucose level in the body. Connectivism theory is relevant in this scenario since it requires that the patient needs knowledge to assimilate the importance of monitoring his or her blood glucose level. The patient has to be active and learn as the process of learning is carried on. James states that, “Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning” (2013). The theory makes learning contextual as the patient has to connect the information he has concerning ...

Leadership is a very challenging task in any profession. In nursing, leadership plays a very important role in ensuring that the health care practitioners execute their duties in a professional way. Leaders must possess specific traits that equip them with the right set of skills for the smooth running of the processes. Patient fall accounts for many accidents in the health care setting. The committee to sit in the development of strategies to reduce patient falls and bring down costs related with patient falls must possess knowledge on occupational safety and health. The knowledge on occupational safety and health will allow the ...

History of the patient

The patient’s name has been changed and will be referred as John. The patient is a 25-year-old man living in New York City. He was diagnosed in 2010, that he had type 2 diabetes. Before that, he had all the symptoms of a person suffering from hyperglycaemia. According to his glucose level, that was 118-127 mg/dl, it was said to be ‘borderline diabetes’. The only action taken was that the patient was told to lose weight. He was referred to this clinic, which specialises in diabetes. This is because the patient’s weight continued to increase and his feet ...

Introduction

People in the developed countries are living longer with advances in medical science. The life expectancy, today, is much longer than it was in the previous generations. With the baby boomer generation now reaching the age of 65 years and people living longer as compared to the olden days, the population worldwide of those aged over 65 years is increasing day by day or is set to increase substantially in the coming decades ahead. With an increased life expectancy, there is also a rise in chronic diseases. Worldwide, over 22 million people die from chronic diseases every year (Free 2). ...

Quality Data Collection

Data Needed to Monitor Improvement in Performance Areas

United States health care system has faced myriad challenges in the recent past based on increased inefficiencies in the system. Although the country is among the top spenders globally in health care, the resources are spent ineffectively. For example, the premiums charged for insurance have been increasing steadily while coverage of people has been shrinking explaining the inadequacy of the system. The services being provided are not sufficient to meet the rising and changing health needs of the people. There is a need for comprehensive management of health care through policies, quality ...

Ethics is defined as the study of moral choices or issues. In layman terms, ethics is the difference between right and wrong (Kinicki & Kreitner, 2009)
There are several ethical implications of patient clinician messaging. The first implication pertains to the confidentiality and privacy of personal health data. The utilization of secure and web-based messaging inadvertently eliminates the requirement of encryption which would be needed for the traditional email (National Ethics Committee, 2004, p 4).

The second implication is the threat of causing uneven access to medically appropriate care to the individuals who do not have ability to use ...

When a clinic joins a management care organization, there are several benefits and effects that the organization undergoes. The main aim of a clinic joining a MCO is to ensure proper staffing, find a balance in its financial stability and to be able to effectively manage its patient volumes. According to Burns (2008), managed care organizations have programs that ensures patient outcomes are achieved through the provision of affordable, appropriate and extensive coverage of accessible benefits of prescription drugs. Clinics are thus able to choose from the numerous plans and programs to reduce their costs and be able to choose the best remuneration for ...

First case:

A cath surgery is to be performed in both left and right side of the heart due to the patient’s shortness of breathing.

- First a wire will be placed inside the heart to determine the amount of oxygen there are leaks in the valves.
- Water will then be injected and connect it with a thermostat in the atrium and pulmonary to determine the temperature inside the body.
- The procedure begins at the left coronary side
- The next step is to block the femoral in order to stop the blood circulation in the left ...